Sewing Projects that I have worked on
Last year I saw some jacquard knit fabric in Spotlight and thought I’d love to do something with it, but it’s polyester and I’m not a fan. Ever since I’ve been looking around for something similar in a natural fibre and haven’t had any luck, so when I found it Read more
It’s hard to find striped knit fabric in an Adelaide Fabric store, so when I found some I grabbed it. And Kwik Sew 2184 was the perfect match.
I love making jeans, and when I found some heavy denim, 12oz in fact, at The Fabric Store in Adelaide for only $8 a metre, I knew they would be perfect for some hardwearing jeans. They would also be ideal for my talk at the Mitcham Hills Sewing Guild group Read more
My top which I’m calling my “Aqua and Navy Circles Top” started with a sale on Liberty fabric at The Fabric Store in Adelaide. The plan was to get some Tana Lawn to sew a top. I’d only used Tana Lawn previously as a lining for my Closet Core Patterns Read more
Time for a bit of colour in my wardrobe with a red denim-style jacket using cotton drill.
This is what I’ve called my husband’s “Back Off Shirt”. It’s the second shirt I’ve made from my first Spoonflower fabric order. It’s another cotton poplin shirt so all of the techniques I used in the previous shirt, the History of the Apple Shirt, could be replicated with this one. Read more
The first fabric to use from my first Spoonflower order was the History of the Apple by 1stPancake in a Cotton Poplin. It has lots of images related to Apple Computers on it – the Macintosh, Macintosh Portable, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad. This print was chosen by my husband to Read more
I’ve wanted to buy custom printed fabric from Spoonflower for a while, and when they had a 20% off sal,e I thought it was a great time to try it out. Happily, this coincided with a number of events. My husband had thrown away some worn-out shirts, his birthday was Read more
This is the third part of my journey creating my Chanel Jacket. The first part outlined how I gathered all the supplies and created a well fitting toile (ie. test garment in calico). In the second part I cut out and prepared my fabric for sewing. In this post I’ll Read more
This is the second part of my journey creating a Chanel Jacket. The first part outlined how I gathered all the supplies and created a well fitting toile (ie. test garment in calico). In this post I’ll discuss the cutting out process, which was quite different to any other pattern Read more